DOHA FORUM VEWPOINT SERIES TO LAUNCH NEW INTERVIEWS

Launching the series this week is Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies

Doha Forum featured recently at The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia, where it continued its successful View Point interview series with a variety of notable and VIP guests.

View Point is Doha Forum’s own interview platform, providing the opportunity to ask leading political and industry figures from around the world some of the most topical questions of the day. The current series will continue weekly across the summer period on Doha Forum’s social media channels.

Launching the interview series this week, Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, the first of nine such notable speakers, comments on the trends he sees dominating global interests, alongside TotalEnergies special relationship with the State of Qatar.

Commenting on TotalEnergies strategy in Qatar, Patrick Pouyanné said, “We are in Qatar now for 85 years... and we are there now in new energies. We changed our name to TotalEnergies recently because it means all energies and we are in Qatar to build an 800 megawatt solar farm which will be inaugurated before year end, and so for me, Qatar is very important.”

Patrick Pouyanné continued; “Tomorrow, Qatar should also think, and is already on the move with solar, towards this new world and new energies... I think it is important that Qatar continues to be in the lead of the new energy world.”

With respect to climate change, Patrick Pouyanné commented, “We need a global world if we want to face climate change, because climate change is a global challenge and there is no way to solve the issue if we behave in a selfish way.”

First established at Doha Forum 2019, the View Point series has continued as part of Doha Forum’s virtual strategy, alongside a popular webinar series, prior to the next Doha Forum to be held in 2022. Doha Forum is a platform for global dialogue, first established in 2000, on critical challenges facing our world, promoting the interchange of ideas, discourse, policy making, and action-oriented recommendations.

Doha Forum last convened in Doha in December 2019, bringing together 243 speakers, 142 nationalities, 300 media, alongside more than one hundred bilateral meetings and 40 View Point interviews. In 2020 and 2021, Doha Forum continues virtually with a series of webinars featuring leading policymakers, experts and scholars, discussing pressing global issues.